In the shop for some heavy maintenance. One of the drivers has been lowered into the pit and will get new tires. May of 2007 at the Texas State Railroad shops.
Nice! I'd love to see one of those tire changes in person: lots of very hot flames, plenty of sledge hammers, and sweat. I'm more worried about the long way down!
A couple of old hands at the Dallas, TX yard are preparing to remedy a problem and get the J-5c Class 2-6-0 back to work. Must be checking out the flues as the smoke box door is open. Number 555 was built by Alco-Schenectady in 1904 and had undergone many alterations before being photographed here in September 1950. Greg Maxwell collection.
Judging by the dirty face of the guy on the left, he was the "lucky" one to go in the smoke box, lol!
Located in Knox, IN adjacent to the NKP's main to Chicago, the Nickel Plate Restaurant was nicely located. Note how the painters paid homage to the NKP's logo by interlacing the P and the L. [Starke County Historical Society]
Whenever I see a picture of an old restaurant/cafe like that, I wish I could go back and taste what the food was like. Partially because my ancestors ran a restaurant in Taopi, MN in the 1900s - 1930s. Doug
Heck, only 46 years old? I wonder what that long rod going up to the valve chamber is and what the piece laying on the ground to the left of the drivers is. Doug
Nice joint for a dinner and a show! And a good heavy freight will help settle and digest the meal. A thingamabob and a doohickey respectively. They forgot to bring the watchamacallit.
MOW cars always offer such neat variety. A roster shot of a Charger on A7 from the departed footbridge over the old yard in Minot.
That's pretty. An imaginative color scheme and a heck of a departure from CSX's orthodoxy in paint schemes!
I like it too. The sunny side had clutter and overgrowth obscuring the view, so I drove around to the other side (so as to avoid trespassing) and waited for a cloud to arrive and shot through a fence. The shade reduced the backlight of the shot. This was the scene on the sunny side.
